What is Huanchu? Take over the power of the Sima Dynasty!
Why did the Sima Dynasty perish? Because of the Huan family!
What kind of deep hatred did the Huan family and the Sima family have? Raid the family's revenge!
Since the family has been raided, why can the Heng family rise and destroy the great Sima Dynasty? Sima Yi's negligence!
The above four questions are actually interlocking, like a long set of dominoes, starting from Sima Yi's attempt to usurp the throne, the first domino has quietly fallen...
The first domino - "The Change of Gaopingling"
Since Cao Pi's death, the Cao Wei court has been divided into two factions, one is Sima Yi, who is in a high position and resourceful, and the other is Cao Shuang, a member of the imperial family who has long controlled Shang Shutai.
Sima Yi can be described as one person below and above ten thousand people. Several generations of subjects, his mentality has long changed, and he is waiting for an opportunity to completely get rid of the subjugated state of subordination - the change of Gao Pingling.
In 249, the young emperor Cao Fang and Cao Shuang left Luoyang together and went to Gaoping Tomb to visit the tomb. Sima Yi immediately summoned soldiers and horses to launch a coup d'état and quickly took control of Kyoto, and the military power in Kyoto was officially put under the hands of Sima Yi, known in history as the Gaopingling Rebellion.
The second domino , Huan Fan
Who is Huan Fan? Capable! After the Young Emperor Cao Fang ascended the throne, Huan Fan was already the Grand Si Nong, commonly known as the Minister of Finance of the State, and repeatedly advised Cao Shuang, known as the "think tank".
At the time of the incident, Sima Yi had wanted to entrap him, and even had already passed on a false edict, and Ren Huanfan was the leader of the central army to "persuade" him to surrender. However, Huan Fan still remembered the emperor's kindness, broke through many obstacles and came to Cao Shuang's side, and pointed out one and only bright way for Cao Shuang's life for the last time - taking the young emperor to Xuchang and gathering soldiers and horses to fight with all their might!
As the saying goes, not afraid of god-like opponents, afraid of pig-like teammates, Cao Shuang faced such a straightforward "single choice question", chose the second way, abstain! Listening to Sima Yi's swearing to Luo Shui and not killing the magnates of the Cao family, he was determined to save his rich life and confess his sins and surrender.
The ending was not surprising at all, and within a few days after Cao Shuang returned to Kyoto, he was exterminated by Sima Yi in the name of rebellion. None of Cao Shuang's relatives and cronies were spared, and Huan Fan, who "ventilated the news", naturally could not escape being exterminated by the three tribes.
Kyoto was bloody for a time, and as many as 5,000 people were involved, but Sima Yi was still negligent in cutting the grass and rooting out the roots, he underestimated Huan Fan's alertness, knowing that Cao Shuang's surrender was a dead end, how could he not know that the family and extermination were accustomed to eliminating political enemies? Huan Fan made all kinds of arrangements, and finally let his young son Huan Kai escape the disaster, and it was precisely in this way that the Huan family was saved.
Of course, Sima Yi would not know what kind of devastating blows such a small negligence of his own would bring to his dynasty and descendants.
The last card - Huan Xuan
The Sima Dynasty was never a smooth dynasty, born out of turmoil but always unable to completely quell the chaos, and the wise and demon Sima Yi did not dare to calm the chaotic world and was good at governing the country, so the Western Jin Dynasty was completed and ended with the sword and sword shadow, chaos and bloodshed, and then the Eastern Jin Dynasty was also established in uneasiness and turmoil, the Sima clan was no longer able to rely on the imperial power to dominate the family, and various clans rose, including the Huan family.
At this time, the Huan family was not only a Huan family with only one child, Huan Kai's grandson Huan Yi repeatedly made military achievements in the turmoil of the dynasty, and became a hero of the Eastern Jin Dynasty; and Huan Kai's great-grandson Huan Wen inherited the courage and wisdom of his father, with a deep hatred in the blood sea and the anger of the family, "dancing his teeth and claws" in the court of The Sima clan, just like Sima Yi in the Cao dynasty hall at that time, first controlled the government and seized military power, and then the Northern Expedition, the abolition of the emperor and the establishment of others.
Although Huan Wen once toyed with the Sima Dynasty, his son Huan Xuan did not successfully sit on the imperial throne, on the contrary, the storm of power was further dramatic with Huan Xuan's participation.
Although Huan Xuan was loved by his father, he was not the proud son of heaven, born and glorious, he was a son of a concubine, unable to inherit the title, and when he was young, he was depressed, and he could only occupy Jingzhou by virtue of the prestige accumulated by the elders of the family who had governed Jingzhou for many years.
In 397, Huan Xuan first instigated The Qingyan Erzhou Assassin Shi Wang Gong and the Jingzhou Assassin Shi Yin Zhongkan to attack the imperial court, and after Wang Gong's death, he joined forces with the Yongzhou Assassin Shi Yang Qi and others to openly fight with the imperial court. In 402, the stormy, powerless emperor finally issued a letter of response to Huan Xuan, and Huan Xuan, who had been recuperating for a long time, led the army directly to Kyoto, and the Sima Dynasty was also destroyed, and Huan Xuan established the Huanchu Dynasty.
This scene is almost the same as that of Cao Wei Daihan and Sima Shi Dai Cao, and people can't help but sigh: Heavenly Dao is good reincarnation, who has the heavens spared? From the beginning of the Sima family's usurpation of the throne, this change of power was also repeatedly and frequently staged in the land of China. Huan Chu established the dynasty only about 2 years ago, and 15 years after his fall, Liu Yu, who defeated the Huan family, overthrew the sima family's last struggling rule and established the first dynasty in the Southern Dynasty, the Song Dynasty.